re: Objectively shouldn't Miami be number 1?

You would have to think so, although bama is still better

That’s funny, IMO. Alabama is the one time I don’t want to see if Oklahoma gets that far. Offensively, I think both are equally sound. Defensively, well, OU can’t find a consistency.

This entire topic is pointless to Alabama fans. If we win, we're playoff bound...it's as simple as that.

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is there anyone Bama fans don't want to play?

I don't think I would worry about one team more than another if I was them

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As a fan, I do my best (though sometimes fail) to try and focus on the next game, regardless if it is a "gimme" - like Mercer - or not. We play who we play.

I think, if anything, playing Clemson might be a bit "been there, done that". We won the first one, they won the second. Not sure if I'm super interested in playing them again. Wisconsin, of all the playoff teams, looks like the "easiest" game but I could easily be wrong. Clemson lost to Pitt last year and finished the season looking like world beaters.

I'd love to play someone we haven't played in a while, or never at all (though I don't think anyone who is a serious contender would be a new opponent for us).

While I would hate to lose the Iron Bowl, if the scenario played out that the SEC got two teams into the playoffs and seeing the melt would be glorious. That said, no way that happens. The West, while still good, wasn't nearly as strong this year and FSU, which was supposed to be a top flight marquee OOC game for us, flopped spectacularly. It's not like Alabama didn't TRY to schedule a really good OOC opponent, but them's the breaks.

I like interesting games, not necessarily easy ones. Of course, my ulcer would beg to differ.

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I wouldn't put us number one. Injuries or not we just haven't looked like the number one team.

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